Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) has secured a 10-year, $340.3 million contract to help manage the life cycle of the U.S. Air Force’s enterprise land mobile radio system. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will include LMR network sustainment maintenance services, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Motorola will additiona...
Skip Maselli, a more than 35-year intelligence and defense industry leader, has joined space data company Pixxel as vice president of public sector business in the U.S. He will report to Aakash Parekh, chief commercial officer of Pixxel, and oversee the development and execution of the company’s strategy to advance growth initiatives in the U.S....
U.K.-based education company Pearson (NYSE: PSO) has wrapped up its purchase of Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, a workforce assessment services provider to the U.S. federal government. The acquired company will rebrand as “PDRI by Pearson” and operate under the latter’s assessment and qualifications business, Pearson said ...
Six companies have received contracts from the National Reconnaissance Office to study commercial hyperspectral imagery capabilities. BlackSky Technology (NYSE: BKSY), HyperSat, Orbital Sidekick, Pixxel, Planet (NYSE: PL) and Xplore secured the study contracts under NRO’s Strategic Commercial Enhancement broad agency announcement, the agency said ...
To adapt to a warfighting landscape increasingly driven by digital technology, the U.S. military must pursue the implementation of zero trust with interoperability and collaboration in mind, according to public and private sector information technology leaders. Joseph Staier Joseph Staier, chief engineer for the Air Force’s enterprise information ...
Bryan Bearden, former vice president of portfolio management at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been named VP of information technology services at Sumaria Systems. He will be responsible for helping drive Sumaria’s operational culture and growth and ensure the delivery of technology products to customers, the compan...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) business unit has booked a pair of contracts worth $380 million combined to provide technical support and other services to the Environmental Protection Agency. General Dynamics Information Technology will support EPA’s Superfund cleanup program under a potential eight-year, $195 million contract and help the agen...
Sierra7 has booked a $104 million task order to review information technology systems that support a product line under the Department of Veterans Affairs’ portfolio of benefits and memorial services. VA placed the order for an independent verification and validation of the compensation and pension product line via the Transformation Twenty-On...
The U.S. Navy has exercised options worth $234 million under a contract with Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) for the production and delivery of an over-the-horizon weapon system for defending against targets at sea and on land. Raytheon and its Norwegian partner Kongsberg Gruppen won the potential $847.6 million OTH-WS contract in 2018 to supply N...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to launch a full and open competition for a potential 10-year, $850 million multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and development services in support of the missions of NGA and international partners. NGA expects to release in May the solicitation for the Resea...
